Theatre For A New Audience

For more than three decades, the Theatre has produced over 60 master works, including 28 of Shakespeare’s plays alongside other classic works and distinguished contemporary plays, including Edward Bond’s Chair, W.S. Gilbert’s Engaged, Howard Brenton’s Sore Throats, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders, which was named one of the ten best productions of 2007 by The New York Times. In 2001, Theatre for a New Audience became the first American theatre company invited to perform Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon. Its production of Cymbeline, directed by Bartlett Sher, led to continuing artistic dialogue and exchange, and the Theatre returned to the RSC in March 2007 with its production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Darko Tresnjak and starring Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham.